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podcast player of joys. Have you ever heard of shrunken heads? You might think they're just stories from

explorers about far-off tribes, plot devices from Gilligan's Island, or a scene from

the horror comedy film Beetlejuice, but they're actually

quite real. They might be small, but the practice of making shrunken heads has a big history, especially

among the indigenous Chavaro people of Peru and Ecuador.

Imagine a time back in the 19th century when Europeans saw shrunken heads for the first time.

They were no doubt horrified at the site, but just like drinking black

coffee, watching daytime television, or listening to NPR, they eventually acquired a taste for it.

Like all human beings, morbid fascination took over,

as did their desire to own something so macabre for themselves.

Suddenly they wanted to buy tiny human skulls to show off in museums or keep us souvenirs.

Hey, look at my new lucky charm, it's a shrunken head.

Well, it wasn't so lucky for the guy who lost his head, but look at the luck it has brought me.

I now have a tiny human head on a keychain.

And thus began a new trade.

The Javiroin people lived in the deep forests of the Amazon, which at the time did not

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